Assessment of Automated Tiered Storage for Midrange Arrays
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Executive Summary
Storage Arrays Analysed
This follow-on research extends the original research to the midrange marketplace. We picked the single most popular platform from each of the major platforms to analyze. The intial list was:
- Dell Compellent using Data Progression
- EMC VNX using FAST VP ATS together with FastCache software
- Hitachi AMS
- Hitachi VSP using Dynamic Tiering ATS software
- HP 3PAR F-Class using Adaptive Optimization ATS software
- IBM Storwize 7000 using Easy Tier ATS software
- IBM XIV
- NetApp FAS Series
Three arrays were not analyzed because they did not offer an ATS solution. They were:
- Hitachi AMS
- Hitachi HUS system – this array family is new into the marketplace. Tiered storage is offered for file-based storage, but not initially for block-based storage. Wikibon expects ATS block-based storage solutions to be available in the future, and hopes to analyze them in the future.
- IBM XIV (Flash can act as a read-only cache. The fundamental architecture of the VIV which spreads two copies of data across all drives only allows a single tier of storage.)
- NetApp FAS Series (Flash acts as a read-only cache. NetApp offer manual movement of data between tiers, but have been resistant to providing an automated tiered storage solution)
The Hitachi VSP and IBM Storwize 7000 were analyzed in the previous research. This time the weightings and the comparison categories and questions were all slightly different.
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